Star Wars Disney+ limited TV Series

[Thom]

Cool, I liked his portrayal of Lando, and we know he's not dead! Hurrah!

[Bolt]

I'm expecting a good story and a good time.

[jvmacross]

Disney hasn't ruined Lando.....yet!

[sh9000]

Good news indeed.

[Big s]

3 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Disney hasn't ruined Lando.....yet!

Other than the fact that he was banging a robot 

[Bolt]

16 minutes ago, Big s said:

Other than the fact that he was banging a robot 

He's LANDO..! Captain Kirk levels of promiscuity..

[azrael]

Just because someone is gonna write a treatment doesn't mean it's gonna be accepted by the studio nor does it mean it will be good. I prefer to just wait and see.

[Big s]

7 hours ago, Bolt said:

He's LANDO..! Captain Kirk levels of promiscuity..

At least Kirk only did living things mostly 

Lando only did a used sexbot that appeared to be falling apart 

Edited July 30, 2023 by Big s

[electric indigo]

But that sexbot was PWB!

[sh9000]

Well said.

[sh9000]

The Complete Series coming to 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.

[jvmacross]

[Big s]

1 hour ago, jvmacross said:

This is what happens when you forget to train a Jedi the basics, like how to turn on the lightsaber. 
At least someone figured out how to use it the old fashioned way.

[Bolt]

I'm so not holding my breath. 

[Roy Focker]

One thing going for this show is that it is set in a different era. That should mean no dumbass elements to connect it to the Filoni/verse like with Kenobi.

[Seto Kaiba]

Do we know anything about what the story's supposed to be?

As long as it's not messing about in the space between movies, that'd be a huge breath of fresh air.

[Big s]

15 minutes ago, Roy Focker said:

One thing going for this show is that it is set in a different era. That should mean no dumbass elements to connect it to the Filoni/verse like with Kenobi.

Honestly the best thing Star Wars can do is to stay away from existing Star Wars, wether that’s new or old 

[sh9000]

Tales of the Empire.

[Old_Nash_II]

21 hours ago, sh9000 said:

Tales of the Empire.

10 years after, and we Discover The destino of Barriss

[Mog]

Does some dark side stuff, and then pissed off and gets killed by Vader for causing Ahsoka to leave the Order?

[sh9000]

New clip.

[sh9000]

Revenge.

 

[Mog]

Was expecting more from Tales of the Empire, but kinda underwhelmed.

I guess Dooku and Ahsoka just made more compelling characters and stories, compared to Morgan and Barriss.

I like Morgan’s character (and I enjoyed her whuppin’ a certain punk-ass character here), but it all felt very by-the-numbers.

Looking back at it,

Spoiler

I’m more curious how the hell she gained an acumen for building/improving tech (the TIE Defender and that intergalactic hyperspace ring) and how she acquired that beskar spear.

Barriss’ story was interesting but didn’t have that much emotional punch.  

Spoiler

Would’ve thought Vader would’ve said or did something to her.  She was the ultimate cause of Ahsoka leaving the Order after all.

 

[Old_Nash_II]

 

 

[Duke Togo]

I watched the first episode of Tales of the Empire and am not sure I'll watch anymore. I have no idea who this character is, the story was pretty thin, and I'm just not interested in what happens next.

[Bolt]

Ok. Well. More lightsaber formula scenarios...I guess we'll see if this show is any good. Not too excited to find out.

[Mog]

^^Well, the first three eps focus on Morgan Elsbeth, the beskar spear wielding lady in Mandalorian and one of the antagonists in Ahsoka (who has a few kickass fight scenes in the finale).  They try to give her some backstory, but the only interesting bits were her interactions with the Empire's military brass.  Kinda wish they had flesh out a few other things about the character, rather than some of the stuff we saw on-screen.

Other than a quick fight with Greivous, not much saber-wielding in those first three eps.

. . . Can't say the same for the last three eps though.

[jvmacross]

Just finished watching Tales of Morgan and Barriss.....meh

Once again, Disney/Lucasfilm seem to think we need to have the background story for every character....this time it was for characters we arguably did not need any background story for....are these background stories supposed to make us feel sorry for both Morgan's and Barriss' "tragic" fates?

Not exactly what I thought a Tales of the "Empire" would have focused on....oh well....I'm sure The Acolyte will be great! 

Edited May 4 by jvmacross

[Duke Togo]

47 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

Just finished watching Tales of Morgan and Barriss.....meh

Once again, Disney/Lucasfilm seem to think we need to have the background story for every character....this time it was for characters we arguably did not need any background story for.

I won't bother to go any further with the series, then. 

[sh9000]

Haven't checked out Tales of the Empire yet.  Like most Star Wars series, I'll watch for the few good parts.

[azrael]

On 5/4/2024 at 1:33 PM, jvmacross said:

Once again, Disney/Lucasfilm seem to think we need to have the background story for every character....this time it was for characters we arguably did not need any background story for....are these background stories supposed to make us feel sorry for both Morgan's and Barriss' "tragic" fat

The problem is, fans, like this one, keep saying "I want more. I want to see how <X character> got there." As the saying goes: fans don't know what they want. They have no clue what is good or bad; important or fat. We don't need to see everything because, sometimes, it's just not THAT important. It's why we get lots of crap. It's the one thing fandoms, including Star Wars', just doesn't get. Sometimes the most important moment of a character's life is just that moment; that one story. Everything else is filler.

[Dynaman]

If a movie was any good to begin with all the background information you "need" to know about a character is what was told in the movie.

[Big s]

3 minutes ago, Dynaman said:

If a movie was any good to begin with all the background information you "need" to know about a character is what was told in the movie.

That’s what made the og films so good. I didn’t need a background story to Vader. Everything was laid out just fine as the trilogy went. Then the prequels came out and we were given a character that could barely emote, whined all the time, hated sand and was groomed by an older character that should have known better than to be attracted to children as his motives.

[Seto Kaiba]

7 hours ago, azrael said:

The problem is, fans, like this one, keep saying "I want more. I want to see how <X character> got there." As the saying goes: fans don't know what they want. They have no clue what is good or bad; important or fat. We don't need to see everything because, sometimes, it's just not THAT important. It's why we get lots of crap.

To be frank, I'm not sure that's necessarily true. 

On an individual level, many fans do seem to have a pretty clear idea of what they want from Star Wars. All you have to do is ask and many of them will tell you quite a lot about what precisely they want from it. They just can't manufacture a consensus because the fanbase is so bloody big and so heavily divided against itself.

It surely doesn't help that what the die-hard fans want and what is actually marketable are often two very different things. Tales of the Empire is exactly the kind of writing which the franchise has historically used to pander to that die-hard crowd. Their whole "every single background character is the hero or villain of another story" schick is standard expanded universe writing and something that Star Wars frequently indulged in before Disney. So much so that even a filthy casual like me had one or two of the "Tales of ______" books. It might be weak writing to general audiences, but to the die-hard fans it's continuity porn.

[azrael]

59 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

They just can't manufacture a consensus because the fanbase is so bloody big and so heavily divided against itself.

If they can't come to a consensus, then they don't know what they want.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Their whole "every single background character is the hero or villain of another story" schick is standard expanded universe writing and something that Star Wars frequently indulged in before Disney. So much so that even a filthy casual like me had one or two of the "Tales of ______" books. It might be weak writing to general audiences, but to the die-hard fans it's continuity porn.

Continuity is both a blessing and curse. It's a nice way to fill in the gaps, but I didn't need it documented what a character had for brunch on a Sunday afternoon. If you dig too deep into continuity porn, you enter the mundane. Then it becomes lousy storytelling.